Delhi: Hub for Party Drugs

The amount of party drug ingredients that are passing through Delhi has resulted in authorities believing that Delhi is a hub for party drugs. What's worrying authorities about Delhi as a hub for party drugs is that it is emerging as a market.

The amount of party drug ingredients that are passing through Delhi has resulted in authorities believing that Delhi is a hub for party drugs. Authorities have said that in the last month or so, over 235 kgs of pseudoephedrine, an ingredient in party drugs like Ecstasy, has been seized in Delhi. What's worrying authorities about Delhi as a hub for party drugs is that not only are the ingredients passing through Delhi, unlike earlier where the finished product would merely pass through, now, Delhi is emerging as a market for these party drugs as well.

"Traditionally Delhi has been a transit point but recently these drugs have found a market in Delhi too. There is a market in some other cities such as Mumbai as well," a Narcotics Control Bureau official said. The ingredients were early going via Delhi and the northeast states into Myanmar where they were processd into the finished drugs. The drugs would then transit through Delhi en route to Europe. But this scenario is changing with Delhi becoming an attractive market too.

Even with the authorities nabbing carriers and the ingredients, they say that they are a long way from cracking down on the illegal drug trade.